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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 27, 1996Montgomery County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 1:58 AM CDT for Montgomery County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 1996, 1:58 AM CDT (06:58 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1996, 2:30 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Montgomery County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 2:19 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 58	Middletown, MO
May 27, 2:19 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Middletown, MO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 305 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1746 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 10.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 270659
SVRSTL
MOC139-270730-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
158 AM CDT MON MAY 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY
 
AT 2 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING INTO WESTERN PORTIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE
MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH ARE MONTGOMERY
CITY...BIG SPRING...WELLSVILLE AND HIGH HILL.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. ST2AY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Moniteau	44 min
May 27, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone	64 min
May 27, 12:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Boone	52 min
May 27, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain, Monroe	46 min
May 27, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Callaway	30 min
May 27, 1:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Callaway	34 min
May 27, 1:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain, Ralls	29 min
May 27, 2:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	53 min
May 27, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln	46 min
May 27, 4:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jefferson	51 min
May 27, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford	45 min
May 27, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Knox	43 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.